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@WITIVESSES:

R. B. KING.

LIGHT REPRAOTOR.

Patented Oct. 11, 1887.

N PETERS, PllolwLxlhographnr. Wilshmglnn, ILC,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH B. KING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LlGHT-REFRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,330, dated October11, 1887.

Application filed November 20, 1886. Serial No. 219,444.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH B. KING, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a newand useful Improvementin Light- Refractors, of which the following is aspecification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing, formingpart thereof.

The invention has reference to means for subduing and refracting lightreceived from a candle or gas-jet.

In the drawing is represented a side view of my improvement.

0, is a thimble or holder, which is to be placed upon the top of eithera gas-jet or a candle.

b is arefractor composed of any desired color of glass and havingthereon ornamentation. In the drawing are shown ribs or lines in theglass concentric from the center to the edge. This refractor is heldoutothe thimble by means of a loop of wire, a, one end of which isconnected to the center of the refractor by a thumbscrew, (1, passingthrough an eye in the wire, and secured upon the other side by a nut orother means of fastening. At the rear of the refractor is placed anenlarged nut or washer,

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0, so that the refractor may be securely held by the thumb-screw dbetween the washers. The wire 0 is made at the other end in an S- shapedform, and its extremity is inserted in a socket, f, placed on the sideof thethimble a.

This device is used as follows: \Vhere gasjets are arranged around aroom, the thimble a, with the refractor connected thereto in manner asset forth, is inserted over the burner with the refractor facing thecenter of the room. The effectis "cry peculiar and agreeable upon thelight of the room. If placed on a chandelier, it is inserted over theburner with the refractor facing outward. The same effect is hereproduced. In case the thimble a is placed over a candle, it will followdown as the candle wastes in burning.

I claim- The combination of a refractor, Z), of substantially the formshown,co1nposed of colored glass, with a thimble or holder, a, a wire,0, thumb-screw d, and washers 6, arranged as and for the purposedescribed.

RALPH B. KING.

\Vitnesses:

R0131. H. MARsHALL, J OIIN W. KONVALINKA.

